Desktop Tips

View and access your most visited websites from the Top Sites Dashboard widget.

Top Sites offer a quick access to the sites you visit most often. Based on your browsing history, this feature ensures you spend less time searching for the websites you frequently use.

To enable Top Sites:

Go to the Dashboard.
Click on “Add Widget” at the bottom of the page.
Click on “Top Sites”.

Vivaldi browser's Dashboard. An arrow points at the Top Sites widget.

Create Keyboard Shortcuts for opening and closings individual Web Panels.

Keyboard Shortcuts are excellent for opening and closing Web Panels for a quick glance. But before you toggle Web Panels with Keyboard Shortcuts, you need to assign each panel its unique shortcut.

To add Keyboard Shortcuts:

Go to Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts > View.
Find the command “Web Panel 1”.
Click in the box next to it.
Press the keys you want to use for the shortcut on your keyboard.
Repeat with other Web Panels.

Then whenever you want to open one of the web panels just use the shortcut for both opening and closing the panel. If you already have one open, the shortcut will switch focus to the one you need.

Keyboard Shortcuts Settings. Arrow pointing at a focused "Web Panel 1" entry.

Choose whether to open the Start Page with the last viewed Speed Dial Group or with the first one on the list.

Start Page with the Speed Dials and Dashboard is a starting point in every new Vivaldi tab for most people. To make it useful, choose what you want to see.

To make your decision:

Go to Settings > Start Page > Reopen Speed Dial with.
Choose between “Last Selected Group” and “First Group”.

If you’re opting for “First Group”, check out this recent tip on reordering your Speed Dial Groups.

Start Page settings. Arrow pointing at "Reopen Speed Dial with".

Restore recently deleted Calendar events from Trash.

When a cancelled event is back on, instead of creating a new event in your Vivaldi Calendar you can simply restore the one you deleted.

To restore an event:

Open the main Calendar view.
Click on “Trashed Events” in the top right corner of the calendar.
Click on the event you want to restore.

To restore the most recently deleted event, right-click on any of the timeslots in the Calendar and select “Restore Event From Trash”.

Trashed events menu open in Vivaldi browser's Calendar.
A larger trash icon is displayed on the side of the browser window to show what the button looks like and where to find it.

Put your Speed Dial Groups on the Start Page into the correct order.

Have you added many bookmark folders as Speed Dials on the Start Page, but the order is all wrong, and/or you’d prefer to have the Dashboard as the first page rather than the last? Don’t fret! There’s a super easy way to get them in the correct order.

To reorder your Speed Dial Groups and the Dashboard:

Click on the group you want to move and start dragging it right or left.
Using the vertical line as a guideline, drop the group at its new location on the Start Page Navigation bar.

Dashboard being dragged to the first spot on the Start Page Navigation bar.

Tip #594

November 12, 2024

Trigger Command Chains from a toolbar button with a custom icon.

Command Chains can be triggered with Quick Commands, Keyboard Shortcuts, Mouse Gestures, toolbar buttons, and from menus. Command Chain toolbar buttons all look the same, though. If you have multiple chains on the browser’s toolbars, you should give them custom icons to make them easier to recognize.

To give a Command Chain button a custom icon:

Go to Settings > Themes > Editor > Icons.
Select the icon you want to update.
Drag the file to the preview box.
Alternatively, click on the box and locate the file.

To add a Command Chain to a toolbar:

Go to the Vivaldi menu > View > Customize Toolbar.
Alternatively, right-click on one of the buttons already on the toolbar and select “Customize Toolbar”.
From the drop-down menu, select “Command Chains”.
Drag the chain’s button to the toolbar of your choice.

Tip #593

November 11, 2024

Create custom widgets for the Dashboard with the help of Webpage Widgets.

There are different widgets you can add to the Dashboard in your Vivaldi browser – Feeds, Tasks, Bookmarks, etc. The Webpage Widget offers you the most flexibility, allowing you to add any webpage to the Dashboard (preferably one that looks good in a small web view).

To add a Webpage Widget:

Go to the Dashboard.
Click on “Add Widget” at the bottom of the Dashboard.
Select “Webpage”.
Enter the link of the website you want to view from the widget.
Click “Done”.

In the image below, you can see two webpage widgets on the bottom row. The widget on the left is a web page with a game and the one on the right shows the widget setup process.

Vivaldi browser's Dashboard with 2 web widgets on the bottom row. One showing a game and the other the set up process.

Tip #590

November 6, 2024

Open bookmarks from the Bookmark Panel with a single click.

Having to do a double click instead of a single click doesn’t seem like a big deal, but you’d be surprised how even the most minuscule differences can affect your workflow.

To enable bookmark opening with a single click:

Go to Settings > Bookmarks.
Tick the box for “Open Bookmark Panel Items with Single Click”.

And how about combining it with the “Open Bookmarks in New Tab” setting, which you’ll find right above “Open Bookmark Panel Items with Single Click”?

Bookmark Settings in Vivaldi.
Arrow is pointing at the "Open Bookmark Panel Item with Single Click" setting.

Tip #589

November 5, 2024

Choose the maximum number of widget columns for your Dashboard.

The same way you can decide how many Speed Dial columns you have on the Start Page when the browser window is large enough to fit a lot of them (see Tip #89), you can choose how many columns of widgets you have on the Dashboard.

To update the limit:

Option 1

Click on “Show Start Page Settings” in the top right corner of the Start Page.
In the Dashboard section, choose a number between 1-4 for “Maximum Columns”.

Option 2

Go to Settings > Start Page > Dashboard.
Choose a number between 1-4 for “Maximum Columns”.

Bottom right corner of Vivaldi browser's window showing Start Page settings. Drop-down menu with numbers from 1 to 4 is open for Dashboard's maximum column's setting.

Tip #587

November 1, 2024

Ctrl/⌘ + double-click on a tab to select all tabs from the same domain.

You can hold down the Ctrl/⌘ button and select tabs individually, or use Shift + click to select several tabs in a row. But there’s something very satisfying about having tabs scattered all over the Tab Bar and watch all the ones from the same domain get selected and highlighted with one simple move.

You can even use these shortcuts together to get a mixed selection of tabs faster.

Tip #585

October 30, 2024

Skip scrolling and jump to the latest emails with a click of a button.

Vivaldi Mail‘s “Jump to Latest” button makes it easy to hop back to the most recent email with a single click.

The button is only visible when the newest emails are out of view. Whether the button is at the top or bottom of the list depends on whether you sort your mail in ascending or descending order.

Tip #584

October 29, 2024

Fill your Dashboard with useful widgets.

Latest emails, tasks, newest feed articles, most visited sites, favorite bookmarks, and more can be pulled into the all-in-one control center – the Dashboard.

To add a new widget:

Go to the Dashboard.
Click on “+ Add a Widget” at the bottom of the window.
Click on the widget you want to add.

Some widgets, like Date and Tip of the Day, can be added to the Dashboard once, but most can be added multiple times. This allows you to display different content in each widget, such as different email accounts, calendars, bookmark folders, etc.